Is your friend using Barcode rules?  This may be why it 
automatically assigns the tape back to an HSM pool.


Quoting Todd Stansell <todd AT gnac DOT com>:

> I have a co-worker who I've been helping try to 
figure out how to re-use
> tapes that have neen used by HSM, which are now 
expired or freed in some
> way, and initialize them for use in NBU.  The problem 
seems to be that
> once NBU sees the tape, it recognizes that tape as 
being associated with
> HSM in some way and either freezes the tape, or marks 
it as part of the
> HSM pool (in some way it's unusable).
>
> The tape can be manually removed from the HSM pool, 
the tape header can
> be erased, and when it is then added back to NBU, it 
still gets assigned
> back to the HSM tape pool or is other wise unusable 
(I'm not exactly
> sure of the behavior).  From what he says, it does it 
so quickly that
> it doesn't even have time to load any of the tapes, 
so the chance of it
> actually reading the tape is pretty minimal.
>
> So, we were wondering if anyone has dealt with this 
kind of thing and
> if there is some special way of disassociating a tape 
with HSM so that
> it can be used within NBU again for regular backups.  
I seem to remember
> hearing or seeing that there was something special 
that needed to be
> done, but haven't found or remembered it...
>
> NBU 3.2, HSM 3.2, Solaris 2.5.1.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Todd
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